Stephen Shore: 'People would chase me off their lawns with my Leica'

Whether using a large-format camera or his handy 35mm Leica, celebrated US photographer Stephen Shore became a chronicler of ordinary life in the 70s. He discusses his new book of unseen small camera worksIn the early 1970s, Stephen Shore made a series of large-format photographs of main streets in the US. He showed them to his friend and fellow photographer, Hilla Becher, one half of a rigorously formal German photographic duo with her husband, Bernd Becher. Nearly 50 years later, Shore can sti